September 18

Learn the most interesting events and historical facts that happened throughout history on September 18. From 1900 until now. September 18 is under the sign of Virgo. Famous birthdays on this day include Greta Garbo (1905), Jada Pinkett Smith (1971) and Lance Armstrong (1971). Several movies were released around September 18 over the years, such as Ghost in the Shell in 1995 directed by Mamoru Oshii and Remember the Titans in 2000 directed by Boaz Yakin.
But much more happened on September 18 over the years: find out below

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Also see September 18 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Chile - Independence Day (first junta 1810)
RC Saints - Feast day of St Joseph of Cupertino and Methodius of Olympus
In ancient Greece, the fifth day of the Eleusinian Mysteries.

Events

2018 Syria missile strikes (September 2018): News emerges that the Russian Ilyushin Il-20 aircraft with fourteen people on board, missing since Monday over the Mediterranean Sea, was shot down. Russia accuses Israel of not giving enough warning before launching its attacks, causing Syria to shoot the plane down. (BBC) (ABC News)
2017 Northern Rakhine State clashes: A few hundred pro-government protesters gather in Myanmar's commercial capital Yangon, condemning Rohingya militants as well as perceived foreign interference in the Rakhine conflict. (MSN)
2016 Kashmir insurgency: Four Jaish-e-Mohammed militants attack an Indian Army base near the Pakistan border with at least 17 soldiers and four militants killed. (International Business Times)(BBC)
2015 Israeli–Palestinian conflict: Israel deploys an extra 800 Israeli police officers as Palestinians call for a "day of rage" protests in Jerusalem over entry restrictions to Al-Aqsa mosque. A police vehicle in Jerusalem was attacked with assault rifle fire. (Jerusalem Post), (Al Jazeera America)
2014 Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant: Islamic State release a video purporting to be from British journalist John Cantlie as propaganda. (Reuters)The United States Senate passes a budget measure authorising President Barack Obama to equip and train moderate rebels to fight ISIL in Syria. (Washington Examiner)
2013 The United States Federal Reserve announces that it will continue its stimulus program due to concerns about weakening growth. (The Age)
2012 Hezb-e-Islami, Gulbuddin Hekmatyar's faction, claims to be responsible for a suicide bomber who strikes near Kabul Airport in Afghanistan killing twelve people. (Reuters)
2011 Arab Spring:
2010 Three protesters die in anti-India protests in Jammu and Kashmir with the death toll from protests rising to one hundred. (AFP via Yahoo! News)
2009 The 72 year run of the soap opera The Guiding Light ends as its final episode is broadcast.
2008 2008 South Ossetia war:
2007 The Federal Reserve cuts interest rates in the U.S. by half a point (0.5 percent) for the first time since 2006 to ease the ongoing panic in the financial markets due to the subprime mortgage crisis.
2006 Right wing protesters riot the building of the Hungarian Television in Budapest, Hungary, one day after an audio tape is made public, in which Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsany admitted he and his party lied during the 2006 general elections.
2005 Afghan parliamentary election: Former Northern Alliance warlords and their followers claim victory.
2004 In Kirkuk, Iraq, a suicide car bomb attack on the Iraqi National Guard headquarters in Kirkuk kills 23, and prominent Shia cleric Sheikh Kadhim al-Hany is ambushed and killed. (BBC)
2003 International Atomic Energy Agency: Iranian officials give signals that they do not intend to comply with a resolution passed by the United Nations's nuclear watchdog giving Tehran until the end of next month to come clean on its atomic programme. Parliamentary speaker Mehdi Karrubi, a close ally of President Mohammad Khatami, said the IAEA resolution was ampquotpoliticalampquot and that ampquotthe Iranian people will not accept giving in to the logic of force.ampquot
2002 After three days of negotiations in Sattahip, Thailand, the Tamil Tigers agreed to drop their demand for independence from Sri Lanka, and accepted autonomy in the north and northwest of the country.
2001 First mailing of anthrax letters from Trenton, New Jersey in the 2001 anthrax attacks.
1998 ICANN is formed.
1997 Seve Ballesteros and Nick Faldo elected to World Golf Hall of Fame
1996 Roger Clemens ties his own major league record with 20 strikeouts
1995 Art Modell 1st meets (he claims) with Baltimore to move Browns
1994 1st Presidents Golf Cup: US beats International team 20-12 at Robert Jones, Virginia
1993 Kimberly Clarice Aiken (SC), 18, crowned 67th Miss America 1994
1992 Undaunted by his earlier withdrawal, supporters of U.S. presidential candidate H. Ross Perot succeed in getting his name on the ballot in all 50 states.
1991 John Hart becomes general manager of Cleveland Indians
1990 Atlanta is chosen to host 1996 (centennial) Summer Olympics
1988 Juli Inkster wins LPGA SAFECO Golf Classic
1987 US and Russia sign accord to remove mid range missiles
1986 Motorola announces the Motorola 68030 microprocessor. It incorporates about 300,000 transistors.
1985 Song & Dance opens at Royale Theater NYC for 474 performances
1984 Tigers clinch AL East championship (spent all year in 1st place)
1983 Juli Inkster wins LPGA SAFECO Golf Classic
1982 Christian militia begin killing six-hundred Palestinians in Lebanon.
1981 Assemblee Nationale votes to abolish capital punishment in France.
1980 Les Miserables, opens at Palais des Sports, Paris
1979 The Who opens NYC concerts at Madison Square Garden
1978 Leaders of Israel and Egypt reach a settlement for the Middle East at Camp David.
1977 All 4 Kiss members release solo albums
1976 Cleveland manager Frank Robinson last game as a player
1975 Heiress / bank robber Patricia Campbell Hearst captured by FBI in San Francisco
1974 Hurricane Fifi strikes Honduras with 110 mph winds, killing 5,000 people.
1973 German FR and German DR admitted to UN
1972 1st black NL umpire (Art Williams-Los Angeles vs. San Diego)
1970 Jimi Hendrix dies in London of drug related complications.
1969 Tiny Tim and Miss Vicky get engaged
1968 Ray Washburn (Saint Louis Cardinals) no-hits San Francisco Giants 2-0.
1967 ''Love Is a Many Splendored Thing'' debuts on U.S. daytime television and is the first soap opera to deal with an interracial relationship. CBS censors find it too controversial and ask for it to be stopped, causing show creator Irna Phillips to quit.
1966 Mickey Wright wins LPGA Shirley Englehorn Golf Invitational
1965 Get Smart premieres
1964 Greek King Constantine II marries Danish Princess Anne-Marie
1963 USSR orders 58.5 million barrels of cereal from Australia
1962 Bob Aspromonte sets NL 3rd baseman record of 57 cons errorless games
1961 U.N. Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold dies in a plane crash while attempting to negotiate peace in the war-torn Katanga region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
1960 Mickey Wright wins LPGA Memphis Golf Open
1959 Vanguard 3 is launched into orbit to measure local phenomena related to Earth's atmosphere.
1957 Wagon Train premieres
1956 Mickey Mantle is 8th to hit 50 HRs in a seaon
1955 Marilynn Smith wins LPGA Mile High Golf Open
1954 KTUL TV channel 8 in Tulsa, OK (ABC) begins broadcasting
1952 The Soviet Union vetoes Japan's application for membership in the United Nations.
1951 Tennessee Williams's adaptation of ''A Streetcar Named Desire'' premieres, becoming a critical and box-office smash.
1950 Nakagawa Soen, Zen teacher, receives dharma transmission
1949 Baseball major league record four grand slams hit.
1948 Hilarities (of 1949) closes at Adelphi Theater NYC after 14 performances
1947 National Security Act, passes
1946 Joe Louis knockouts Tami Mauriello in 1 round for the heavyweight boxing title.
1945 1000 whites walk out of Gary, Indiana, schools to protest integration.
1944 Eindhoven free (Lightly Day)
1943 Cardinals clinch NL pennant
1942 The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation is authorized.
1940 19 German aircrafts shot down above England
1939 Polish government of Moscicki flees to Romania
1938 Chicago Bears beat Green Bay Packers 2-0
1934 The USSR is admitted to League of Nations.
1932 Actress Peg Entwistle commits suicide by jumping from the letter ''H'' in the Hollywood sign.
1931 Japan takes Manchuria, renames it Manchukuo
1930 Philadelphia Athletics win AL championship for 2nd year in a row
1929 Pirates loss to Braves and clinch NL pennant for the Cubs
1928 Cards beat Phillies for 20th of 22 games in 1928
1927 18 station CBS radio network begins, (WOR is NYC affiliate)
1926 46th US Mens Tennis: Rene Lacoste beats Jean Borotra (64 60 64)
1925 Bill Tilden wins 6th straight US tennis championship
1924 Government routes 7 Provinces to Peking
1923 September 26 ampndash Newspaper printers strike in New York.
1922 2nd government of Ruys de Beerenbrouck installed in Neth
1919 Dutch 2nd Chamber accepts female suffrage
1918 Battle of Megiddo (Palestine) starts
1915 Boston Braves trounce Saint Louis Cardinals 20-1.
1914 Gen von Hindenburgs named commander of German armies on Eastern Front
1911 Russian Premier Peter Stolypin is shot at the Kiev Opera House.
1910 25,000 demonstrate in Amsterdam for general male / female suffrage
1908 Cleveland Indian Bob "Dusty" Rhoades no-hits Boston, 2-1.
1906 A typhoon with tsunami kills an estimated 10,000 people in Hong Kong.
1905 Electric tramline opens in Rotterdam.
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